Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 69, 1 by mellielong

mellielong wrote:
I have noticed that Sulphurs like red flowers. They're always hitting up my neighbor's firecracker fern. Love that Pipevine picture - so shimmery and blue!

So I went back outside after lunch and caught a Palamedes but it was a boy so I threw him back. I saw the hummingbird checking out the new plants I got yesterday. Not sure if he was on the porterweed or the firebush or both. I also found three RSP eggs on my cherry! Then, I went over to the neighbor's yard to check his out. I found one more RSP egg. I also stopped at one of the Senna obtusifolia that is coming up and found a nearly full-grown Sleepy Orange cat and tons of eggs. Nothing on the partridge pea, but the sulphurs won't leave my Senna ligustrina alone.

Now for the educational portion of my post...RSPs are in the same family as Viceroys. This means they have a lot of the same habits. For example, the way they lay eggs. They lay their eggs on the tip of the topside of a leaf. They'll sit facing the trunk of the tree and put their abdomen right on the tip and lay the egg. So don't bother looking elsewhere for them. Here's a picture of one of the eggs I found today. I still think they look like little disco balls.